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Tawnos, Solemn Survivor

Tawnos, Solemn Survivor

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer · {1}{U} · Black/Blue/White commander

{2}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of up to one target artifact token you control. Mill two cards. {1}{W}{U}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice two artifact tokens, Exile an artifact or creature card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of the exiled card, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. Activate only as a sorcery.
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What Tawnos, Solemn Survivor actually does

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What a Tawnos, Solemn Survivor deck wants

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Best cards for Tawnos, Solemn Survivor

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Super State7 mana
  6. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  7. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  8. Krang, Utrom Warlord9 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Reconnaissance1 mana
  2. Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
  3. Amulet of Vigor1 mana
  4. Freed from the Real3 mana
  5. Pemmin's Aura3 mana
  6. Retreat to Coralhelm3 mana
  7. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  8. Umbral Mantle3 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  2. Hedron Crab1 mana
  3. Ruin Crab1 mana
  4. Millikin2 mana
  5. Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
  6. Excavated Wall1 mana
  7. Exhibition Tidecaller1 mana
  8. Eye Collector1 mana

A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Lotus Petal0 mana
  4. Mox Amber0 mana
  5. Mox Diamond0 mana
  6. Mox Opal0 mana
  7. Lion's Eye Diamond0 mana
  8. Ornithopter0 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Intangible Virtue2 mana
  2. Caretaker's Talent3 mana
  3. Inspiring Leader3 mana
  4. Prava of the Steel Legion3 mana
  5. Hildibrand Manderville // Gentleman's Rise2 mana
  6. Hildibrand Manderville // Gentleman's Rise2 mana
  7. Mite Overseer4 mana
  8. Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun2 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  4. Brain Freeze2 mana
  5. Mindcrank2 mana
  6. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  7. Codex Shredder1 mana
  8. Hedron Crab1 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Chasm Skulker3 mana
  2. Dalkovan Encampment0 mana
  3. Elenda's Hierophant3 mana
  4. Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
  5. Elenda, the Dusk Rose4 mana
  6. Endless Ranks of the Dead4 mana
  7. Hero of Bladehold4 mana
  8. Myrel, Shield of Argive4 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Reality Shift2 mana
  4. Pongify1 mana
  5. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  6. Resculpt2 mana
  7. Defile1 mana
  8. Tragic Slip1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Final Showdown1 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Amalia Benavides Aguirre2 mana
  4. Do or Die2 mana
  5. Martyr's Cry2 mana
  6. Pest Control2 mana
  7. Force of Despair3 mana
  8. Split Up3 mana

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